EP0140349A2 - Dispositif de commutation à semi-conducteurs - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a switching device using semiconductor elements, and more particularly to a switching device having plural MOSFET's (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor), GTO's (Gate Turn-Off Thyristor) or the like connected in series with another.
- MOSFET's Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
- GTO's Gate Turn-Off Thyristor
- the switching device according to this invention is preferably applicable to the switching of a high voltage circuit such as a medical X-rays production device, electron beam welding device, neutral particle incident device for neclear fusion and semiconductor fabricating device.
- MOSFET provides, because of being a voltage controlled type element, excellent characteristics such as small driving power, high strength to breakdown due to the absence of current concentration and excellent switching characteristic due to the absence of storage effect of carriers.
- MOSFET as a single body has only been implemented as a device with a breakdown voltage of about 1 kV at the most. Therefore, a series connection of plural MOSFET's is required for the realization of high breakdown voltage.
- Fig. 2 shows a so-called totem pole type switching circuit having n MOSFET's connected in series such as disclosed in HITACHI APPLICATION NOTE (9F-55.04) pages 7-8.
- MOSFET 1 1 With no gate signal being applied to MOSFET 1 1 , it is turned off, thereby providing no current flowing therethrough. Then, MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n connected in series are also turned off since they operate to follow MOSFET 1 1 .
- the voltages divided by resistors 2 1 - 2 n are applied to the respective gates of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n and the voltages nearly decided by the resistors 2 1 - 2 n are applied between the source and drain of each of MOSFET's - 1 1 - 1 n .
- MOSFET's 1 1 -1 n also start to conduct as slaved to MOSFET 1 1 . As a result, the switching circuit becomes on.
- the switching circuit as shown in Fig. 2 can be on-off controlled by the application or non- application of the gate signal to MOSFET 1.
- MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n require, for their switching-on, the application of the respective voltages sufficient to maintain their conduction state between the gate and source of each of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n . Therefore, the switching circuit of the mode as shown in Fig. 2 causes the increase of the so-called on-resistance which means the increase of the voltage held in the switching circuit in the conduction state, attributed to the excess increase of the drain potential of each of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n to the extent necessary to drive them.
- the other example of the semiconductor element having blocking function is a gate turn-off thyristor (GTO) the breakdown or withstand voltage of which approaches 4 kV.
- GTO gate turn-off thyristor
- Fig. 3 The most common example of the series connection of GTO's is shown in Fig. 3. This circuit can be implemented to the extent of 10 or so in the number of GTO's in series connection, but is not practicable in the case of being more in the above number since its circuit construction is complicated because of the driving circuit GA required for each GTO.
- Fig. 4 shows a circuit construction of the so-called slave firing or ignition such as disclosed in "A 20 KVA DC-SWITCH EMPLOYING SLAVE CONTROL OF SERIES OPERATED GATE CONTROLLED SWITCHES" by J.W. Housing. Jr., 1964 WESTERN ELECTRONIC SHOW AND CONVENTION/LOWANGELES, AUGUST 25-28.
- GTO3 1 at the lowest stage in the series connection of GTO's turns on, capacitor 4 1 starts to discharge through resistor 5 1 , the gate, cathode of GT03 2 and the anode, cathode of GT03 1 .
- the discharging current from capacitor 4 1 is an on-gate current for GT03 2 , switching GT03 2 on.
- GTO's3 3 , 3 4 ... 3 n will sequentially turn on.
- GTO3 1 turns off, the current having been flowing in the circuit flows through the gate of GT03 2 , diode 6 1 and capacitor 4 1 .
- This current is an off-gate current for GT03 2 , switching GT03 2 off.
- GT03 2 turns off, the current having been flowing in the circuit flows through the gate of GT03 3 , diode 6 2 , capacitor 4 2 , the cathode, gate of GT03 2 , diode 6 1 and capacitor 4 1 .
- This current is an off-gate current for GT03 3 , switching GT03 3 off.
- GTO's3 4 , 3 5 ... 3 n will turn off.
- the slave firing circuit system requires a driving circuit 100 for on-off control of GTO's for only GTO3 1 at the lowest stage.
- the other GTO elements can be sequentially on-off controlled in accordance with the GTO element at the lowest stage.
- This circuit system can therefore obviate the complication of the driving circuit such as shown in Fig. 3.
- this slave firing circuit system is disadvantageous in that where load current is so small as not to reach the holding current for GTO's, the GTO will turn off.
- the common GTO circuit maintains the GTO's in the conduction state by continuously applying the gate current to their GTO's during the on-period.
- the slave firing circuit system does not permit all of GTO's to be continuously supplied with the gate current during the on-period.
- the switching circuit of the slave firing mode as shown in Fig. 4 disadvantageously maintains the blocking state since the blocking of current occurs wheh the load current does not reach the holding current of the GTO's.
- the switching circuits as shown in Figs. 2 and 4 are disadvantageous in that steady on-off control cannot be made over a wide area from small current to large current.
- An object of this invention is to provide a switching circuit which enables steady on-off control over a wide area from small current to large current.
- a switching circuit S is connected with a D.C. power supply Es and a load circuit L, and the construction of the switching circuit S according to this invention is shown in Fig. 5.
- switching elements S l , S 2 ... S n are in series connection in order so that the output terminal for load circuit current-of the switching elements S n , S n-1 , ..., S 2 is coupled with the input terminal for load circuit current of the switching elements S n-1 , S n-2 , ..., S 1 , respectively.
- the input terminal of the switching element S n at the highest stage is connected with one end TRI of the switching circuit S while the output terminal of the switching element Slat the lowest stage is connected with the other end TRO of the switching circuit S.
- Capacitor elements C 1 , C 2 ..., C n-1 are sequentially connected so that the output terminal of the switching elements S 1 , S 2 , ..., S n-1 is coupled with the control terminal of the switching elements S 2 , S 3 , ..., S n , respectively through capacitor elements C l , C 2 , ..., C n-1 .
- the capacitor element C n at the highest stage is connected between the output terminal of the switching element S n and the input terminal thereof.
- the control terminal of the switching element Slat the lowest stage is constituted to be supplied with a control signal, while the respective control terminals of at least, the switching elements S 21 S 3 , ..., S n constitute insulating gates.
- this invention supplies a series of the switching elements S 1 - S n with the capacitor elements C 1 - C n each of which performs the application of driving energy to the corresponding switching element in the on-state, and the absorption of circuit energy and the discharge of the input capacitance of the control terminal of the corresponding switching element in the off-state, thereby operating the switching elements S 2 - S n in the manner of slave control.
- the operation of the switching circuit according to this embodiment is as follows.
- a positive gate signal is not applied to MOSFET 1 1 , it is in the blocking state, and so MOSFET'S 1 2 - 1 n slaved to MOSFET 1 1 are also in their blocking state.
- the switching circuit is in the off-state and supplied with the voltage E s determined by the power supply circuit.
- the voltage E s is substantially equally shared thereby so that the respective voltages substantially corresponding to the capacitances of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n are applied to MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n .
- the positive gate signal is applied to MOSFET 1 1 , it starts to conduct.
- the capacitor 4 1 starts to discharge through the resistor 5 1 , the gate, source of MOSFET 1 2 and the drain, source of MOSFET 1 1 .
- the voltage sufficient to operate MOSFET 1 2 is applied between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 , and so MOSFET 1 2 starts to conduct.
- the Zener diode 7 2 is provided for restraining the gate-source voltage of MOSFET 1 2 below a predetermined value.
- MOSFET's 1 3 - 1 n sequentially start to conduct in the same manner. As a result, the switching circuit turns on.
- MOSFET 1 1 maintains the on-state with a sufficiently low on-resistance since the positive gate signal is continuously applied to MOSFET 1 1 during the on-period.
- MOSFET 1 2 also maintains the on-state with a sufficiently low on-resistance, like MOSFET 1 1 , since the voltage determined by the Zener diode 7 2 is continuously applied to the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 due to the absence of a discharge circuit.
- MOSFET's 1 3 - 1 n also maintain their on-state, like MOSFET 1 2 . Therefore, the switching circuit according to this embodiment permits the on-resistance thereof to be sufficiently reduced, with many switching elements being connected in series, unlike the circuit system as shown in Fig. 2 in which the drain-source voltage of each of MOSFET's is applied to the gate thereof.
- MOSFET 1 1 When the application of the gate signal to MOSFET 1 1 is stopped, it is switched into the blocking state, with no current flowing therethrough. Therefore, a load circuit current flows through the source, gate of MOSFET 1 2 , resistor 5 1 , and capacitor 4 1 , thereby discharging the charge supplied between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 when it is in the on-state. Discharging between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 switches MOSFET 1 2 into the blocking state, with no current flowing therethrough.
- the load circuit current flows through the source, gate of MOSFET 1 3 , resistor 5 2 , capacitor 4 2 , Zener diode 7 2 , resistor 5 1 and capacitor 4 1 , thereby making the discharging between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 3 .
- MOSFET 1 3 turns off like MOSFET 1 2 .
- MOSFET's 1 4 , 1 5 ... 1 n will sequentially turn off. As a result, the switching circuit will turn off.
- An MOSFET is as short as several tens ns or less in its switching time, so that there does not almost ocur the unbalance among the shared voltages that is to be ascribed to the differences in switching times in the above turn-on and off operations. Further, the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n reduce the changing rate of the load circuit current at the time of switching-off, which prevents an excess voltage from being applied to the switching circuit.
- Fig. 7 shows another embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. This is different from the embodiment of Fig. 6 in that the voltage dividing for MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n is made by the circuit consisting of potentiometric resistors 2 1 - 2 n and Zener diodes 8 1 . 8 2 connected between the power supply and the respective gates of MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n .
- the series circuits consisting of the resistor 2 1 and the Zener diode 8 1 and of the resistor 2 n and the Zener diode 8 2 are connected between the gate of MOSFET 1 2 and the source of MOSFET 1 1 and between the drain and gate of MOSFET 1 n , respectively, unlike between the respective gates of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n .
- the Zener voltage of each of the Zener diodes 8 1 and 8 2 is nearly equal to or higher than that of each of the Zener diodes 7 2 and 7 n .
- This embodiment of the invention can, because of the presence of the potentiometric circuit using resistors, provide more steady operation, even with MOSFET's 11 - 1 n and the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n being unbalanced in their characteristic.
- Fig. 8 shows another embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. This is different in the embodiment of Fig. 7 in that each of potentiometric resistors 2 1 - 2 n are connected between the drain and source of each of MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n .
- This embodiment can provide steady operation, like the embodiment of Fig. 7, even with MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n and the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n being unbalanced in their characteristic.
- Fig. 9 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. This is different from the embodiment of Fig. 7 in the connections of diodes 6 1 - 6 n .
- This embodiment can also prevent step voltages from being applied to the switching circuit while the switching circuit is in the off-state. These step voltage are supplied by the products of the load circuit current and the values of the resistors 5 1 - 5 n .
- the embodiments of Figs. 6 and 8 can also prevent the application of the step voltae while the switching circuit is in the off-state, by the connection of diodes in the same manner as in Fig. 9.
- Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n and 8 1 , 8 2 may be replaced by the other elements having the same function as the Zener diode.
- Fig. 10 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention.
- a positive gate signal is not applied to MOSFET 11, it is in the blocking state.
- MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n slaved to MOSFET 1 1 are also in the blocking state.
- power supply voltage E s is applied to the entire switching circuit.
- the voltage to be applied between the drain and source of each of MOSFET's 1 1 - 1 n is almost determined by the values of resistors 9 1 - 9 n , so that substantially equivalent voltages are applied thereto by setting the resistors 9 1 - 9 n to equal values.
- the positive gate signal is applied to MOSFET 1 1 , it starts to conduct.
- the capacitor 4 1 starts to discharge through the resistor 5 1 , the gate, source of MOSFET 1 2 , and the drain, source of MOSFET 1 1 .
- the voltage sufficient to operate MOSFET 1 2 is applied between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 , and so MOSFET 12 starts to conduct.
- the Zener diode 7 2 is provided for restraining the gate-source voltage of MOSFET 1 2 below a predetermined value.
- MOSFET's 1 3 - 1 n sequentially start to conduct in the same manner. As a result, the switching circuit turns on.
- MOSFET 1 1 maintains the on-state with a small voltage drop since the positive gate signal of sufficient value is continuously applied to MOSFET 1 1 during the on-period.
- MOSFET 1 2 also maintains the on-state witch a sufficient small voltage drop, like MOSFET 1 1 , since the voltage determined by the Zener diode 7 2 or 10 1 is continuously applied to the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 .
- MOSFET's 1 3 - 1 n also maintain their on-state, like MOSFET 1 2 . Therefore, the switching circuit according to this embodiment permits the voltage drop thereof during the on-period to be restrained to a sufficiently low level, with many MOSFET's being connected in series.
- the diode 6 1 can be removed where the step voltage is considered to be negligible. Discharging between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 switches MOSFET 1 2 into the blocking state, with no current flowing therethrough. The load circuit current flows the source, gate of MOSFET 1 3 , diode 6 2 , capacitor 4 2 , Zener diode 7 2 , diode 6 1 , and capacitor 4 1 , thereby making the discharging between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 3 .
- MOSFET 1 3 turns off like MOSFET 1 2 .
- MOSFET's 1 4 , 1 5 ... 1 n will sequentially turn off. As a result, the switching circuit will turn off.
- An MOSFET is very short in its switching time, so that there does not almost occur the unbalance among the shared voltages that is to be ascribed to the difference in switching times in the above on and off operations.
- the circuits consisting of the resistors 9 1 - 9 n and Zener diodes 10 1 - 10 n are provided for making the shared voltages equivalent through the absorption of the unbalance among the shared voltages associated with the off-operation and of the voltage change due to the drift of the power supply voltage Es.
- Capacitor 4 1 discharges through the resistor 5 1 , Zener diode 10 1 and resistor 9 1 .
- Capacitors 4 2 - 4 n also discharge in the same manner as the capacitor 4 1 .
- the switching circuit operates in such a way that the shared voltages are always determined by the values of the resistors 9 1 - 9 n , maintaining its stabilized off-state.
- the Zener diodes 10 1 - 10 n are provided for preventing the discharging of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n during the on-period of the switching circuit, and their breakdown voltage is set to the value equal to or greater than that of the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n .
- a diode 11 are provided for preventing the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n from discharging through the load L and power supply E s shown in Fig. 1 when the power supply voltage is reduced during the off-period of the switching circuit.
- the possible discharge currents act to charge the respective gate input capacitors of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n as in the above turn-on operation. Therefore, large drift of the power supply voltage causes the voltage across each of the gate input capacitors to be higher than a given cut-off voltage, which turns on MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n .
- the presence of the diode 11 prevents the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n from discharging toward the power supply E s .
- the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n discharge in such a way that the capacitor 4 1 , for example, discharges through the circuit consisting of the resistor 5 1 , Zener diode 10 1 , and resistor 9 1 , and don't perform the changing operation of the charge of each of the gate input capacitors of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n . Therefore, even with the power supply voltage being abruply reduced, the voltage across the gate input capacitor of each of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n is held below the cut-off voltage, and so the switching circuit does not perform any erroneous operation.
- Fig. 11 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention.
- This embodiment is different from the embodiment of Fig. 10 in that a series circuit of each of the Zener diodes 10 1 - 10n and of each of the resistors 9 1 - 9 n is connected in parallel with each of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n .
- This embodiment also provides the same meritorious effect as the embodiment of Fig. 10.
- the Zener diode 10 n connected at the highest stage may be removed.
- each of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n is required to have a large capacitance.
- the large capacitance is not preferable since it lengthens the blocking time of each MOSFET, and besides, the capacitance can only be increased to a certain extent.
- a numeral 110 designates a flip-flop; 120 an oscillator activated by the rising edge of the output signal from the flip-flop 110, and for producing pulses for each certain period; 130 an AND circuit; and 140 a gate amplifier.
- the principal circuit of the switching circuit is common to Fig. 10.
- the output signal a from the flip-flop 110 becomes "1" level.
- the "1" level output signal therefrom is inputted to both the oscillator 120 and the AND circuit 130.
- the oscillator 120 is activated at the rising edge of the signal a and produces a pulse of a width of T 2 for each fixed period T 1 .
- the AND circuit 130 creates a signal c which is a logical product of the signals a and b.
- the signal c drives MOSFET 1 1 through the gate amplifier 140.
- MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n perform an on-off operation, respectively, in accordance with the gate signal applied to MOSFET 1 1 .
- the blocking operation using pulses each width of which is T 2 intends to supplement the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n with charges.
- the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n start to charge with time constants decided by a load circuit resistor (not shown) and the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n .
- the charging voltages may be values enough to ensure the driving of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n during the subsequent T 1 (The cut-off voltage of MOSFET is commonly several volts). Therefore, the voltage to be applied to the switching circuit increases to the voltage necessary to drive MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n (value for lower than the power supply voltage) and thereafter returns to the. value corresponding to the on-state of the switch circuit, as shown in Fig. 13. T2 is determined considering the circuit constant and the charging voltage for driving MOSFET.
- the period T l can be extended since leaks of the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n , 10 1 - 10 n-1 , capacitors 4 1 - 4 n-1' etc. are commonly little. It is not necessary to suppress the reduction of voltage by the increase of capacitance so that the capacitance of the capacitor can be made small, and the off-period T 2 for assuring the driving energy can be made below several 10 us's. T 2 is negligible compared with T 1 . The increase of the switch application voltage is low. Thus, the switching circuit operates in such a way that it can be regarded as maintaining the on-state during the application of the on-command.
- This embodiment can be applied to not only the switching circuit using MOSFET's as semiconductor elements but also to the switching circuit using both MOSFET's and GTO's.
- the switch application voltage while the switching circuit is in the off-state has such a characteristic as shown in Fig. 14, since the capacitor at a lower stage has more amount of charges stored at the time of turn-off and so shares a higher voltage until the substantially equal voltage sharing depending on the potentiometric resistors 9 1 - 9 n is accomplished. Such a tendency is more remarkable where the capacitors of smaller capacitances are adopted to shorten the blocking time of each MOSFET. Therefore, it is desired to make the equal voltage sharing by changing the capacitance of the potentiometric capacitor considering the amount of charges necessary to turn off each MOSFET.
- Fig. 15 Shown are in Fig. 15 the measured values of the sharing voltages in a semiconductor switching circuit in the case of the number n of switching elements in series connection being 10. It should be understood from this figure that the voltage sharing is remarkably improved by using potentiometric capacitors of the respective values close to those determined by equation (7). It is needless to say that the voltage sharing can be improved using GTO's instead of MOSFET's in like manner. Incidentally, in the case of GTO, it is necessary to define the respective values of potentiometric capacitors considering the extent of the switching circuit current to be used since the charge required for the turn-off thereof depends upon the switching circuit current.
- F ig. 16 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention.
- the operation of this switching circuit is as follows.
- An on-signal is applied to a driving circuit 100 to apply an on-gate signal to GT03 1 .
- GTO3 1 turns on, the capacitor 4 1 discharges through the resistor 5 1 , the gate, source of MOSFET 1 2 , the gate, cathode of GT03 2 , and the anode, cathode of GT03 1 .
- a positive voltage is therefore applied between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 , and thus MOSFET 1 2 turns on. Therefore, the sum of the current from MOSFET 1 2 and the discharge current from the capacitor 4 1 acts as a gate current to GT03 2 .
- GT03 2 turns on.
- MOSFET 1 2 the gate-source voltage of MOSFET 1 2 is limited to a specified value by the Zener diode 7 2 .
- MOSFET 1 3 , GT033, MOSFET 1 4 and GT03 4 sequentially turn on, thereby completing the turn-on operation of the switching circuit.
- the on-state of the switching circuit can be maintained by only GTO's until an off-signal is applied to the driving circuit 100 to apply an off-gate signal to GT03 1 .
- GTO's 3 2 -3 n maintain their on-state. This is because MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n are in their on-state with the voltage applied between the gate and source of each thereof, so that the necessary gate current to each thereof flows through MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n when GOT's 3 2 - 3 n start the shift to their off-state.
- the switching circuit of this invention can maintain the on-state thereof while the on-signal is being applied to the driving circuit 100, regardless of the value of the load current.
- the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n may be replaced by other switching elements provided that they can fix the voltage necessary to drive MOSFET's. Further, the Zener diodes 7 2 - 7 n can, of course, provide the same effect also in parallel connection with the diodes 6 1 -6 n-1 . In this case, these diodes 6 1 - 6 n-1 can be removed.
- the turn-off of the switching circuit is carried out as follows.
- An off-signal is applied to the driving circuit 100 to apply an off-gate signal to GT03 1 .
- GTO3 1 turns off, the load current flows through GTO's 3 n , 3 n-1 , ... 3 3 , and the gate of GTO 3 2 , the diode 6 1 and the capacitor 4 1 , and acts as the off-gate current to GT03 2 .
- GT03 2 turns off.
- discharging occurs between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 and so the voltage therebetween becomes equal to the voltage drop across the diode 6 1 .
- MOSFET 1 2 turns off.
- the load current flows as the off gate current to GT03 3 through the diode 6 2 , the capacitor 4 2 , the cathode, gate of GT03 2 , the diode 6 1 and capacitor 4 1 , thereby switching off GT03 3 and MOSFET 1 3 .
- the 4th, 5th ... nth are switched into their off-state, thereby completing the turn-off operation of the switching circuit.
- F ig. 17 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. This embodiment is different in that the potentiometric resistors 2 1 - 2 n are connected as shown. The on-off operation of the switching circuit is carried out in the same manner as the embodiment of Fig. 16.
- Fig. 18 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. This embodiment is different from the embodiment of Fig. 17 in that each of the potentiometric resistors 2 1 - 2 n are connected between the anode and cathode of each of GTO's 3 1 - 3 n .
- the on-off operation of this switching circuit is the same as that of the embodiment of Fig. 16.
- GTO3 1 at the lowest stage can, of course, be replaced by another switching element such as MOSFET.
- Fig. 19 shows a further embodiment of the switching circuit of this invention. The operation of this switching circuit will be explained below.
- GTO3 1 When GTO3 1 is in the off-state, GTO's 3 2 -3 n are also in their off-state. Each of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n lies charged to the voltage nearly determined by the potentiometric ratio of the resistors 9 1 - 9 n .
- an on-gate current When an on-gate current is applied to GT03 1 , it turns on.
- GTO3 1 When GTO3 1 turns on, the capacitor 4 1 discharges through the resistor 5 1 , the gate, source of MOSFET 1 2 , the gate, chathode of GT03 2 , and the anode, cathode of GT03 1 . A positive voltage is therefore applied between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 , and thus MOSFET 1 2 turns on.
- the sum of the current from the drain of MOSFET 1 2 and the discharge current from the drain of MOSFET 1 2 and the discharge current from the capacitor 4 1 acts as a gate current to GT03 2 , thereby turning on GT03 2 .
- the gate-source voltage of MOSFET 1 2 is limited to a specified value by the Zener diode 7 2 .
- MOSFET 1 3 and GT03 3 also turn on, in like manner.
- MOSFET 1 4 , GT03 4 , ... MOSFET 1 n , GTO3 n sequentially turn on, thereby completing the turn-on operation of the switching circuit.
- Zener diodes 10 1 - 10 n are provided for preventing the reduction of the charges of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n-1 and of the charge supplied between the gate and source of each of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n in order to maintain the on-state of each of MOSFET's 1 2 - 1 n while the on-gate signal is being applied to GT03 1 .
- the switching circuit of this embodiment can maintain the on-state even with a load current being lower than the holding current of'GTO, since MOSFET's are in their on-state while the on-gate signal is being applied to GTO3 1 .
- the turn-off of the switching circuit can be carried out in the following manner.
- An off-gate signal is applied to GTO3 1 to switch it into the off-state.
- the load current flows through GT O's 3 n , 3 n-1 , ... 3 3 , and the gate of GT03 2 , the source, gate of MOSFET 1 2 , the diode 6 1 and the capacitor 4 1 , and acts as the off-gate current to GT03 2 .
- the load current discharges the charges stored between the gate and source of MOSFET 1 2 , thereby switching MOSFET 1 2 into the off-state.
- GT03 2 When the product of the off-gate current and time, i.e., charge reaches the value specified by element property, circuit condition, etc., GT03 2 turns off.
- the load current flows only the Zener diode 7 2 .
- the load current acts as the off-gate current to GT03 3 , thereby switching MOSFET 1 3 and GT03 3 into their off-state in the same manner as MOSFET 1 2 and GT03 2 .
- the 4th, 5th, ... nth stages sequentially turn off, thereby completing the turn-off operation of the switching circuit.
- a series circuit of each of the potentiometric resistors 9 1 - 9 n and each of the Zener diodes 10 1 - 10 may be connected in parallel with each of the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n .
- GT03 1 at the lowest stage can, of course, be replaced by another switching element such as MOSFET.
- the Zener diode 10 n connected in series with the potentiometric resistor 9 n at the highest stage can be removed.
- the diode 11, as in the embodiments of Figs. 10 and 11, is provided for preventing the capacitors 4 1 - 4 n from discharging through the load L and the power supply E s shown in Fig. 1.
- Fig. 20 shows another embodiment of the invention. This embodiment is different from that of Fig. 19 in that MOSFET 1, and Zener diode 7 1 are connected with GT03 1 as shown in Fig. 20.
- MOSFET 1 1 When the positive gate signal is applied to MOSFET 1 1 , it starts to conduct. Then, the capacitor 4 1 starts to discharge through the resistor 5 1 , the gate, source of MOSFET 1 2 , the gate, cathode of GTO3 2 , the drain, source of MOSFET 1 1 , and the gate, cathode of GT03 1 .
- GT031 starts to conduct.
- the negatige gate signal is applied to MOSFET 1 1 , MOSFET 1 1 and GT03 1 are turned-off. The operations other than the above are performed in the same way as the previous embodiment in Fig. 19.
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